Friday, 20 February 2009
Self-correction
N-Dubz are wankers. What was I thinking at New Year? The Tinchy Stryder & Kid Cudi singles which have also crossed over to Clubland TV are great, though.
Damn right
about the suppression of thought and invention in primary schools - "utilarian and philistine times" indeed
NuLab's obsession with "standards" does not even succeed by its own theoretical criteria, because throughout their period of government they have been in hock to the very forces which do most to erode those "standards", even elevating the most powerful individual in that field to the level of honorary cabinet minister against whom all vaguely contentious policies must be checked and, accordingly, diluted beyond recognition. They have in fact given us the worst of all worlds, regressing to the most depressingly narrow and rigid elements of pre-1964 education, only with far greater pressure on teachers and completely devoid of the contempt for the worst aspects of mass culture which both Reithians/Hoggartists and rock'n'rollers who thrive on the illusion of rebellion can agree was pre-1964 mass education's only real saving grace (and even if you are of the Brendan O'Neill "hating anything that is popular equates to hating the mass of the population for who they are" school, you must concede that rhetoric about "standards" makes no sense unless such views are also held, or at least accepted). The only thing stopping me from saying that no government could be as morally low as this one is the knowledge that its successor will almost certainly be even lower.
The Rubbish In Leicester Square (TM) spotted
in an all-too-typical 1970s-themed ad for Eco 2020 which, oddly, appears to be soundtracked by "Oh Yes You're Beautiful" performed in the style of "Rock'n'Roll Part II".
Expect many more sightings before the next (and last?) UK general election.
Sunday, 15 February 2009
If 2009 is the late 1970s reloaded ...
... then this has to be the new "Stand Up and Be Counted".
If a British - or rather English - fascist movement ever comes to power, it won't start in dingy BNP meetings. It will start here.
Mondob3ta is ON THE FUCKING MONEY.
Fish in a barrel, of course, but ...
would he similarly say that most people his own age and younger from, say, East London "don't sound white"?
Comments like this are why I cannot join in the "lolz at public schoolboys trying to understand hip-hop" mindset that occasionally circulates on ILX and WSC, nor can I ever use the term "wigga" (which is bafflingly considered acceptable in many supposedly left-wing circles). Surely, if this is the alternative (and it is), any kind of attempted engagement with cultures other than your own, however ham-fisted, has to be a good thing?
I know the above might read as a partial defence of Chris Martin. It wasn't meant as such.
I know the above might read as a partial defence of Chris Martin. It wasn't meant as such.
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